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To ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERN:

Be it known that I, IRA A. RICHARDS, of Brookfield, in the county of Worcester, 'and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new Improvement in Butter-Dish; and I do hereby declare the'following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters ot' referencemarked thereon, to be afull, clear, andexact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute partei' this specification, and represent, int 'Figure 1, a side view,

Figure-2 a top view, and in Figure 3 detached'view enlarged.

This invention relates to an improvement in that c lass of butter-dishes which have a cover, so'` arranged that it maybe turned over into 4the lower portion,when, closed, forming a sphere, and a hemisphere when open ;A and the inventionconsists in the arrangement of a hinged cap over, and so as to securethe bearing in its position. y l i In orderto the clear understanding of my improvement, I will proceed to describe the same as illustrated inthe accompanying drawings. l

A is the lower portion, supported upon legs, B. C, theV top, hung upon pivots, D, all in the usual manner, th'e lower portion'beingjconstructeddonble, so that the cover turns down betwecnthe inner and outer shell. It is necessary, in order to cleanse theA dish, that the top be removed from its bearings. Varioustdevices have been resorted to'to so construct the bearings that, while forming la secure bearing, they might be'removed in a' simplefmanner, but in almost every instancethere has been 'some detachable part or piece arranged in each bearing, which said part or piece is `liablevto be misplaced or lost, and thus seriously inju'reif not entirely ruin, the dish-diculties which my invention entirely overcomes. V

I form the bearing, a s denoted more clearly in lig, 3, so as to receive the trunnion a; and to the likedl part ofthe bearing, and-ata point, d, I hinge acap, E, the point o Z being above a central dividing line from the point f, as seen in fig. 3, so that when the capV is closed down', as denoted in red, the nose gef the cap will spring down over the pointf, and thus securelyclose over the trunnion, but yet so that the cap may be lifted, as denoted in .1I-ig. 3,and turned from the'bearing, as seen in fig. 1, so as to permit the removal of the cover.

I have represented the fixed and hinged part of the bearing as forming an ornament upon the side of 'the dish; but at little er n o extra expense the cap may he made a part of the rim aroundthe lower portion, so that the bearing may appear b'uta part of the rim itself. The construction is a matter-of design of the manufacturer, and no part of my.iuvention. i

I do not wish tn be understood as broadly claiming a liinged vcap to closeover and secure the trunnion in its bearing. v

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isi Y The cap E, hinged at a pointfd, above the centre of V the bearing, and the said cap provided with a nose, g, so as to spring down over thc point f, and secure the trunnion of the cover in.,its bearing, substantially as set forth,

v y I RA A. RIGHARDS. Witncsses:'

VJOHN E. Esnnn,

A. J. Tissus. 

